Comedy / Amy Gledhill
Amy Gledhill: finding the comedy in ‘self-confidence, romance and bin bags’
Standup, actor and writer Amy Gledhill is already a familiar face, and voice, to many comedy fans.
She has guested on The Jonathan Ross Show (ITV), 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4) and Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Sky), and acted in BAFTA Award-winning shows including Sex Education (Netflix), Somewhere Boy (Channel 4), Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (Channel 4) and Alma’s Not Normal (BBC Two).
With Chris Cantrill, she is co-star of ‘Yorkshire’s finest meat-themed double act’, The Delightful Sausage, who also write the BBC Radio 4 series Icklewick FM; and one half (with Ian Smith) of the Northern News podcast – giving listeners a weekly dose of local news from the pair’s respective home towns of Hull and Goole.
In 2022, Gledhill became the first act since 2000 to be double Edinburgh Award nominated in the same year, for best show (for The Delightful Sausage) as well as best newcomer for her debut solo show, The Girl Before The Girl You Marry (2022).
She recently hosted a night at Bristol Comedy Garden, and will follow her 2024 Fringe run with a major UK tour of her second solo show, Make Me Look Fit On The Poster.
Described as an hour about “self-confidence, romance and bin bags”, it’s a show Gledhill is excited to be performing.
“Now I feel like a better comic and a better writer but (somehow) with worse and more embarrassing stories so I have high hopes for the show,” she admits.
Reflecting on a return to touring, she is similarly upbeat. “I had such a blast the first time around. It blows my mind that a room full of people have shown up to see me, specifically. (Where were they on my 14th birthday?!)
“I feel super grateful that the people who attend have been wall-to-wall legends. What. A. Treat.”
Amy Gledhill: Make Me Look Fit on the Poster is at The Wardrobe Theatre on September 26 at 7.30pm. Tickets are available at www.thewardrobetheatre.com.
All photos: Matt Crockett
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